It is very much in the Philippines’ interest to front up to this. Its standing with international credit rating agencies has been improving for several years – Fitch upgraded its outlook for the ...

The Philippines’ score exceeded Indonesia’s 70, Thailand’s 61, Malaysia’s 47, Timor-Leste’s 40, Vietnam’s 38, Cambodia’s 32 and Myanmar’s 28. The 2019 score was a further improvement from 64 in 2015, ...

Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte set up an oversight committee to ensure the entry of a third mobile operator is “undertaken in an integrated and transparent manner”. The committee will be ...

The Philippines ranked as the most fiscally transparent country in Southeast Asia based on the 2019 Open Budget Survey released by the International Budget Partnership, according to Department of ...

THE PHILIPPINES is the 33rd best country to live in, according to a ranking on 60 countries that was topped by Germany ... 3.4 in “Favorable tax environment”; 1.5 in “Bureaucratic”; 0.4 in ...

Background papers prepared for the CCDR consider a much broader range of issues and examine them in more detail than is possible here. Chapter 2 examines the challenges climate change poses for ...

Since December, Sister Liza Ruedas, a nun of the Daughters of Charity, has launched an awareness campaign ahead of the midterm elections scheduled for May 12. The goal is to increase “awareness ...